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When I was a kid I used to ride my bike all the time. I rode it to school, I rode it to work, I rode it for fun. However in recent years I stopped riding it. When I started buying transit passes it just seemed easier to take buses and trains since my workplace at the time was far from where making it too far to ride it there. Besides, transit passes entitle you to unlimited use and can be used as a tax credit in Canada. Chi-ching!

Recently, I decided to start riding my bike to work again as I wanted to get some more exercise and take advantage of all of the great bike paths here in Calgary. The only problem is that while Calgary isn’t a huge city in terms of population(about 1,000,000) it’s huge in geographical size. Apparently we occupy a space larger than that of New York City.

One great thing that Calgary Transit is doing is installing bike racks on their buses. It’s always been easy to take your bike on train, but with the bike racks on buses it’s easy to take the bus now! Well not every bus has them but many do!

Here’s some photos illustrating how they work:

The whole process of unloading the bike took about 10 seconds, not much longer than your typical bus stop. It used to be that accessing some parts of the city were pretty much impossible since it would take all day to ride there. Now with a little help from the bus, no where is out of reach! Hopefully they will install racks on every bus!